Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-28
rrom Near and Far.

An enterprising French officer,
Lieutenant Caron, has taken a gun
boat up the Niger to Timbuctoo.
Hitherto it has been as much as a
Christians life was worth to visit the
place.
In reply to General Berdan's crit
icisms, Lieutenant Zalinski says he
eau guarantee a range of five miles for
his pneumatic gun, using a shell con-
tanlng 100 pounds OF explosive
gciatine.
Rumors are extant of an impending
reconciliation between the King and
Queen Of Servia. All the same, the
Queen continues her Russian intri-
CUES, and has rented house at Dres-
den for year.
Edmund Sylvester, the founder OF
Seattle, w. T., and the oldest member
Of the Masonic order west of the Mis-
sissippi, died in Seattle recently at the
advanced age OF 92 years.
Andrew Carnegie has arrived In
New York with q delegation of mem
bcrs of the Peace Association. who
are to wait on the President and advo-
cato arbitration in place of war for
settling all international difficulties.
Tho Western Union Company ca
blcd to London the times ut which the
yachts in the recent race passed Sandy
Hook Point in seventy seconds, tele-
graphic speed which has never been
equaled in actual business working.
The Kansas CITY bridge is one
of the longest in the world and about
ready for business few miles below
Kansas City. 1t is 1892 feet long,
weighs 81 ,274 tons and is 90 feet above
high water, with towers reaching to a
height Of 200 feet.
Among the gifts lately presented to
Prince Bismarck was an immensely
massive and heavy writing desk,
made of cannon balls, sent him by an
English admirer. When he saw it the
Chancellor exclaimed: "God grant
that cannon balls may be always as
peacefully employed"
A meeting of colored men of Eng
lish birth WAS held in Boston last
week tor the purpose of arranging to
Join the British American Association.
II is said that there are between 800
and 900 colored British subjects in
Boston, and nearly 5000 scattered
throughout the State.
Delegate Toole, of Montana, who is
at present in Washington, says that
there will be hard fight made by four
Territories this winter for admission
as States of the Union. Montana,
Dakota, New Mexico and Washington
Territory will present theirclaiins and
press them vigorously.
An official order has been issued di-
recting that the current coins OF Great
Britain shall cease to be legal tender
in British Honduras. and that the
standard of value in that colony shall
in future be the Guatemalan dollar,
containing 1888 grains troy of silver,
OF the ulillesimal fineness Of 900.
Twenty-one large wagons have been
shipped to South America by an In
dianapolis maker on which to haul as
much az can be loaded on them.
Each weighs about 290J pounds, and
each wheel weighs 299 pounds. The
tires are four inches wide and one
inch thick. The axles are of hickory,
the hubs of black birch and the re-
lnainder of the wagon is of oak.
The Chinese are very practical in
their religious ideas. If God whose
business it is to bring rain overdo it
and cause a deluge they take him out
of the Joss house and set him down
in the shower. If this fail to make
him dry up they 90 to the extremity
of towing him behind boat in the
river to convince him that too much
of Il good thing is as bad as too little.
Il San Francisco Alta.
Mr.. Bell has what is called "sport-
ing blood" and he hasn't whined
since the Thistle was beaten. His last
remarks upon sailin. for home on
Wednesday were: "In bringing over
the Thistle wo brought, undoubtedly,
the best boat that was in Great Brit
ain, and we most frankly acknowledge
that that best was beaten by the Vol
untecr going to windward, and beaten
on its merits"
The professions OF the unemployed
in London are said by the Times to be
composed chiefly of men to whom fr-
Dor is a secondary consideration and
of many members of the light-tingercd
industry. Though nominally held in
the names Of the unemployed, hired
bands. banners, wagonettes and dec
orations show that no expense Is
spared III carrying out the affair to
give it an appearance OF Importance.
Social life in Vienna, long known as
one OF tie gayest capitals in Europe,
is becoming gloomy through chiefly
the tyranny of porters. The city is
chiefly inhabited in flats, which are
presided over by concierge or porter.
This official imposes tax upon every
one who enters the house after given
time. in most cases an early hour at
night. On this account people stay at
home evenings and the streets are de-
serted.
When President Cleveland and his
wife return to Washington they will
take up their residence at the White
House. The house at Oak View will
be put in trim for the winter. Mrs.
Folsom will pass most of her time at
the White House, but will 60 to Oak
View Wednesdays to hold her usual
drawing room" from / to BPM. She
will also 60 there Saturday evening
and remain until Monday, so that Mr..
and Mrs. Cleveland may dine there
Sunday afternoon.
DR.. William L. Wheeler, son-in-law
of the late Governor. Lawrence, and
l,+Lor;,Jaw of the late (Ieneral AL
bert Gallatin Lawrence, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head with pistol at Newport, II. L.,
Thursday last. Mrs. Wheeler's broth
ers arc James q. X. Lawrence and
isaac Lawrence, of New York, and
her sister is Baroness Won Klenck, of
Bavaria. IL is understood that the
wav is now clear for dividing the great
estate left by William Beach Law
,o,,o TJa left his estate in trust dur